A/N: Oh my god guys! I can't believe I got so much response for this story thankyou so much to all the people who reviewed and to the people who added my story. It means so much to me. All of your reviews were so nice, but don't be afraid to make suggestions, ok? Anyway here is the next chapter, I hope it lives up to the standard of the first one! Enjoy.

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Six years after his old best friend had moved away Troy was strutting down the halls of East High like he owned the place, which he pretty much did. Of course he was now only 13 so was not the idol of the older teens, but was still looked up to by all of his year. He had gold brown hair, which was slightly too long so that it fell over his bright blue eyes a bit. He was the captain of the junior basketball team, he had a group of very dedicated friends, and he had a million girls in love with him. He was funny, talented, popular and hot! And he was loving his life as the young god of East High.

A lot had changed in the last six years. Troy had taken Gabriella's advice and joined in sports, finding that he had a natural talent. He had said what he thought to people resulting in everyone realising how much fun he could be. He was friends with the boys who had teased him, in fact he was their leader. He had no trouble talking to girls and practically always had a line of them following him around. If anyone said that Troy Bolton was sensitive and cried a lot they would either get beaten up, by boys, or laughed at, by girls.

Brown Bear was lying forgotten in the bottom of his wardrobe.

Troy had almost forgotten how his life used to be, in fact he didn't like remembering how weak he had been. So he didn't often think of the spunky, young, dark haired girl he had kissed all that time ago. Although he would never admit it, he had never kissed a girl since. Not for any particular reason, because he defiantly loved looking at girls, flirting with girls and being admired by girls, but somehow he never felt inclined to take it any further then that.

Right at this moment it was lunch time on Thursday at East High and Troy walked over to his table of admiring team mates and cheerleaders. As soon as sat down the head cheerleader, Candy, ran over and sat on his lap.

"Hey Troy, I haven't seen you all day. Have you missed me?" she asked, placing a hand on his cheek.

"Baby, you know my day isn't complete until I have had a bit of Candy." He smiled at her and winked.

"Oh Troy!" she squealed and giggled hysterically at his, unoriginal, pick up line.

Troy liked Candy because she was so obviously in love with him and took every chance to prove it. She also had a more developed body then most of the girls in his year and so her habit of constantly sitting on, jumping on or hugging Troy, was quite acceptable to him. Also she was smarter then a lot of the cheerleaders, and so sometimes they actually had interesting conversations. He knew that any of the guys in his year would kill to have Candy crushing on them as her straight red hair and deep green eyes made her very pretty in a sort of plastic way.

"I've to talk to my boys' now, okay babe?" he said over the top of her continuing laughter.

"Alright, maybe I'll come and watch your basketball practice tomorrow." She said before running over to her squad to describe everything Troy had said and done. There was no maybe about whether or not she would watch the practice, as the all of the cheerleaders showed up religiously.

"You are one lucky dude, Troy. If I had Candy all over me like that, I wouldn't be able to send her away." Troy's best friend Chad now turned to talk to him.

"Yeah, she is fine." Jason another member of the team said. "Why don't you ask her out already before someone else does?"

"Well for one, she'd never say yes to anyone but me. She told me that yesterday." Troy said smirking.

"Dude! Ok what's the other reason? If there is a one I'm assuming there's a two." Zeke now said looking at Troy in awe.

"Well I ummm… I…"

However it was just then that the bell went for the end of lunch, and so Troy was able to avoid answering. In all honesty he didn't know why he didn't ask Candy out. Everyone expected him to. And it made sense. There was just always this little voice in his head, it seemed to tell him to wait, that someone better was coming soon. But who could be better then Candy? Troy didn't understand this himself and he knew that if he told any of his friends they would think he was crazy.

The day slowly dragged on and once school was over Troy went home. He shot some hoops with his dad and it was then that he realised the house next door to his had a sold sign out the front. This was strange because people had been renting it for years, however before he could ask his father, the ball smacked him in the side of the head.

"Come on, Troy, get your head in the game!"

After dinner that night Troy went top his bedroom saying that he had homework, but really he just wanted to think. He had forgotten all about the sold sign mystery and was back to thinking about Candy. That night he fell asleep deciding that the voice in his head wasn't worth listening to and he would ask her out tomorrow.

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The next day Troy woke up and he was late, late, late! He got dressed and rushed downstairs, determined to ask Candy out that morning. He grabbed an apple from the kitchen and started collecting his stuff.

"Troy," his mother said, "you're finally up. You'll never guess what has happened. I went over to greet our new neighbours this morning only their not new, it's…" but she stopped when she realised her son wasn't listening.

"Sorry mum, got to get to school. Cant be late today." Troy said before running out the front door.

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Once Troy got to school he quickly found Candy and pulled her to the side of the main hallway. Then he asked her to be his girlfriend, before he could back out of it. Her scream was loud enough to wake the dead.

"Oh my god! Of course I will! This is going to be so great!" she screamed again and hugged him tight, reminding him of two reasons she was such a good catch. She pulled away slightly and when he looked at her he realised she was about to kiss him, the voice in his head started again, saying that he would regret it, but he ignored it. They leaned in to each other and were just about to kiss when suddenly someone tripped into Candy.

"Excuse me! Do you mind?!" Candy said, her pretty face becoming ugly as she turned with dislike on the girl who had half fallen on her.

The girl was built quite small but still had a slim body. She had dark loosely curled hair and dark eyes which somehow reminded Troy of someone…

"Oh, I'm so sorry," she said, "I just stumbled and…" her voice trailed off as she looked from Candy to the boy next to her, "…Troy?"

It was then that realisation hit Troy so hard he could have fallen over from it.

"Gabi…?"

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A/N: there you are my sweeties! The next chapter. I hope you liked it, and if you did please review. The more reviews the sooner the update. xoxox